William Goldman Quotes
Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.William Goldman
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter Benjamin -
First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects.
Orhan Pamuk -
I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
Van Morrison -
I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.
Danica McKellar -
I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
Laura Prepon -
If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
Ed Rendell
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Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
Hanna Rosin -
I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
Dan O'Brien -
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Edmond de Goncourt -
I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
Tania Raymonde -
I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
Action Bronson -
The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
Aaron Allston
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I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
Karan Johar -
My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
Tamara Mellon -
I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
Walid Jumblatt -
Bling is good.
Natalie Massenet -
You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
Captain Beefheart -
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell
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I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.
Tiger Woods -
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.
Yannis Philippakis -
As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.
Camilla Luddington -
Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
Tatyana Ali -
Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.
William Goldman